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| Stabbed boy 'wanted to be lawyer' | |
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| A teenager stabbed to death in south London was a "good guy" who wanted to be a lawyer, a youth worker has said. | |
| Lyle Tulloch, 15, from Peckham, was fatally attacked in a stairwell at Newall House, Borough, on Saturday. | |
| Youth worker Uanu Seshmi, who helped Lyle after he was excluded from school, said: "He was really making an effort to turn his life around." | |
| Four youths - aged 15, 16, and two aged 17 - arrested on Saturday in connection with the death have been released. | |
| Three were released on police bail and no further action would be taken against the 15-year-old, police said. | |
| Lyle died from stab wounds and haemorrhaging at the block of flats in which he was attacked on Saturday morning. | |
| 'Had troubles' | |
| Mr Seshmi directs the Peckham-based From Boyhood to Manhood Foundation, which helps boys excluded from mainstream education. | |
| Lyle joined the programme after he was thrown out of Peckham Academy. | |
| Mr Seshmi said Lyle "had his contradictions, he had his troubles, but he was a good guy". | |
| "He realised he had made mistakes," he said. | |
| Lyle was a hard-working student who helped other boys at the centre with their reading and wanted to be a lawyer, Mr Seshmi added. | |
| It causes me tremendous pain to know that such potential has been wiped off the planet Youth worker Uanu Seshmi | |
| "He wanted to really change his life so his mum could be proud of him." | |
| Mr Seshmi said Lyle mixed with "unsavoury guys" out of school, but he did not believe he was a gang member. | |
| "But he had his enemies - he was on the streets and street life is a tough life. Some people didn't like his independent manner," he said. | |
| He added that Lyle's mother had worked "tremendously hard" to support her son through his difficulties, and was devastated by his death. | |
| "It causes me tremendous pain to know that such potential has been wiped off the planet," Mr Seshmi said. | |
| Lyle was the 12th teenager to be murdered in London this year. | Lyle was the 12th teenager to be murdered in London this year. |